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WVU researchers hope to build the bridge to a greener future with clean hydrogen
Researchers at West Virginia University are vying to overcome the final hurdle in connecting renewable energy to the power grid by “greenifying” the production of hydrogen.Credit: WVU...
Grant backs effort to build useful bacterial colonies
HOUSTON – (Sept. 20, 2021) – Rice synthetic biologist Matthew Bennett and his colleagues have won a four-year, $1.2 million National Institutes of Health grant to advance the art and...
Scientists find a new way to reverse immune suppression in tumors
Malignant tumors can enhance their ability to survive and spread by suppressing antitumor immune cells in their vicinity, but a study led by researchers at...
Studies of menopausal hormone therapy reviewed
Treatment with estrogen in menopause is both good and bad for women’s health. The picture is complex and the scientific evidence sometimes scanty or only...
Tyrosine kinase inhibitor prolongs progression-free survival in rare neuroendocrine tumour
Lugano, Switzerland, 20 September 2021 - The first randomised study in malignant pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (MPP) has found that sunitinib prolongs progression-free survival (PFS) by more than five months. The late breaking...
Conservation study: Fostering wanderlust benefits pandas
In the ongoing quest to understand what makes a good wildlife habitat, surprising new research shows there may be too much of a good thing...
Common blood test may provide insight into which patients with schizophrenia also at high risk for cardiovascular disease
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 20, 2021) – Physician-scientists want to find a signal that a person with schizophrenia is also headed toward metabolic syndrome, which increases their...
Infants exposed to domestic violence have poorer cognitive development
COLUMBIA, Mo. – While assessing a pregnant woman with premature labor in 1983, Linda Bullock noticed bruises on the woman. When she asked what happened,...
New nano particles suppress resistance to cancer immunotherapy
A specially designed lipid nanoparticle could deliver immune-signaling molecules into liver macrophage cells to overcome resistance to anti-tumor immunotherapy.Credit: Takashi Nakamura, et al. Journal for...
A new deal for pollinators to be discussed at the EU Pollinator Week 2021
The EU Pollinator Week is an event that focuses on the importance of pollinators for healthy ecosystems, wellbeing, and culture. Due to the ongoing COVID-19...
How we age, as told by spit
Researchers in Japan have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the metabolites that make up human saliva using samples given voluntarily from a group of 27-to-33-year-old...
B cells of the immune system discovered in the meninges
The brain holds numerous unsolved medical mysteries. Only a few years ago it was discovered that the outer layer of the meninges is interlaced with...
Coral reef cover, biodiversity, fish catches have declined by half since the 1950s
Coral reefs around the world are under threat because of climate change, overfishing, pollution, and more. Now, researchers reporting in the journal One Earth on...
Coral reefs are 50% less able to provide food, jobs, and climate protection than in 1950s, putting millions at risk
The capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services relied on by millions of people worldwide has declined by half since the 1950s, according to...
